Vote at Toad Hall by Eddie Saint

Author:Eddie Saint [Saint, Eddie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hornworm
Published: 2019-07-31T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

So the Mole wasn’t dead. That was not good. Although, at least there was no way he could identify Ivan. By the time the Mole had opened the door Ivan had already hidden himself away.

Now he needed to make amends for calling the police. It had been a close shave with Commander Reynard. Time to show he was a good agent after all.

He had been put back on the Jay J Cottontail case and now he had a new target to follow too: the Badger known as ‘Melody Higgins’. The trouble was, the other Fox agent who had been assigned to trace Cottontail had so far drawn a big blank.

The only place where any of his own previous investigations had led him was, though it pained him to remember it, RootShoot. So, in the absence of any other line of enquiry he logged back on and checked his Friend Requests.

No replies.

‘OK,’ thought Ivan, ‘that is just about all my ideas used up. What now?’

He wanted to stare out of the window and think, but he was back in the basement Computer Room, so he had to stare at the radiator instead. His mood began to darken, and even the thought of Ivan the Whys’ ‘patient fox’ couldn’t raise his spirits.

When Commander Reynard’s neatly brushed face appeared on his monitor it made Ivan jump. He feared the worst: the Commander had reconsidered and decided it was the Far Northern Forest after all.

Which made what the Commander had to say even more surprising.

‘Fairy,’ he began, a computerised fox face in a quarter square of Ivan’s monitor. ‘I’ve just had intel that might be of interest to you. We keep an ear out for intel direct from Service HQ, and I have had it from a very senior source that two agents, one being Melody Higgins, the other unknown, were discussing attendance at the Comic Con event in the city this afternoon. Unless you have any stronger leads I want you to head over to Comic Con and see if you can get close to Higgins. See who she goes with and who she talks to, in particular if it is a Rabbit. We may yet be able to contain this can of Hornworms, as it were, before it spreads too widely.’

Ivan was delighted, not only to have a new lead to follow up, but to have the chance to go to Comic Con. They had nothing like that back in his home forest. He couldn’t work out, however, just how the Commander had got such intel in the first place. He himself had been searching all the usual channels and had come up with nothing. In the interests of becoming a better agent, he plucked up the courage to ask the Commander a direct question.

‘Sir, permission to ask a question, sir? How did you manage to gather intel from inside Service HQ, sir?’ asked Ivan.

‘Oh, that is very straightforward,’ replied Commander Reynard. ‘One of our companies supplied them with bugged chairs.’

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